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TERRACE
Location20 MORRISON PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
File Number602611LevelRegistered |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The terrace at 20 Morrison Place is one of a pair of houses built in 1887 to the design of the architect Alfred Dunn. 20 Morrison Place is a two-storey house of rendered-brick construction with a two-storey cast iron verandah. Paired cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals and spandrels divide the verandah into three equal bays. A party wall separating 20 and 22 Morrison Place is decorated in identical fashion to the flanking party walls with brackets and parapet urns. The parapet, which spans the length of both houses, has a bracketed cornice and decorated central panel. The front entrance is set along the party wall and has a fanlight and sidelights. The plain round-headed windows are simply decorated by rusticated keystones. The setback of the facade from the street allows a small garden area bounded by a cast iron palisade fence with intricate cast iron piers. The front verandah and paths are paved with tessellated tiles. Internally an opening now connects 20 and 22 Morrison Place.
How is it significant?
The terrace at 20 Morrison Place is of architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The terrace at 20 Morrison Place, together with 22 Morrison Place is architecturally significant as a finely executed example of a rendered two-storey terrace. It is significant as a rare example of the domestic work of renowned church architect Alfred Dunn. Unlike other terraces in Morrison Place this pair are set back from the street to allow for front gardens. Contributing to the architectural integrity of the intact facade is the delicate, finely executed cast iron decoration to the verandah, the elaborate fanlight and side lights to the doorcase and the decorative cornice to the parapet.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Terrace